Rant: President-elect Donald Trump wants Toyota to build their plant in the US

A war of words has broken out between Donald Trump and Japan after the US President-elect criticised Toyota over its new car plant in Mexico.

Toyota, one of Japan's leading companies and the world's biggest car maker, is building a factory in Guanajuato in central Mexico where it will produce the Corolla model.

But Trump took to Twitter to warn that Toyota should build the factory in the US or face punishing levies when bringing their cars across the border to sell to Americans. 'No way!' he tweeted. 'Build plant in US or pay big border tax.'